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June 29, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
The Real Victim of the GOP’s Assault on Obamacare
The Hobby Lobby case killed our national consensus on religious freedom
June 26, 2014
Evan Hughes
Liberal Media Is Desperate to Prove That Student Debt Is a Huge Problem
The backlash against David Leonhardt's New York Times column may be unwarranted
June 26, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
The Supreme Court's Abortion-Clinic Ruling Just Made Cops' Jobs Much Harder
The buffer-zone ruling will force a piecemeal approach from law enforcement
June 26, 2014
Sam Kleiner
Obama's NLRB Defeat Was a Victory for Pragmatism
June 26, 2014
Brian Beutler
The Supreme Court's Recess Appointment Ruling Should Petrify Democrats
June 26, 2014
Margo Schlanger
Justice Alito Would Be Just Fine if Congress Undid Yesterday's Landmark Privacy Decision
The twisted logic of his concurring opinion
June 26, 2014
Margot Kaminski
The Supreme Court's Cloud-Computing Confusion
The justices issue two very different decisions on two very similar technologies
June 25, 2014
Tim Wu
The Supreme Court Thinks You're Better Off Paying $150/Month for Cable
The depressing takeaway of the Aereo decision
June 25, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
The Law Has Spoken: A Cellphone Is a Bedroom, Not a Pants Pocket
The Supreme Court rules that all cellphone searches require warrants
June 24, 2014
Bruce Murphy
Conservatives Are Sacrificing Scott Walker for a Higher Cause
They want to eradicate fundraising restrictions—even if it costs the governor his job
June 23, 2014
Taylor Malmsheimer
The Hobby Lobby Decision Is Coming Soon—and It Won't Just Affect Contraception
June 18, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
The Separation of Church and State Is Still Alive—for Children, Anyway
Why did the Supreme Court decline to hear Elmbrook School District v. Doe?
June 16, 2014
Adam Winkler
Maybe the Supreme Court Isn't as Pro-Gun as We Thought
Justice Kennedy rejects an audacious new NRA argument
June 9, 2014
Simon Lazarus
The Supreme Court Deals Radical Conservatives a Foreign-Policy Setback
And hardly anyone notices
May 28, 2014
Margo Schlanger
The Supreme Court Gives a Subtle Boost to Free Speech
A Secret Service ruling isn't the setback it may seem
May 28, 2014
David R. Dow
The Supreme Court's Empty Defense of the Intellectually Disabled
States ignored a prior ruling outlawing executions—and the justices let them get away with it
May 15, 2014
Lane Florsheim
How Texas Keeps Putting the Intellectually Disabled on Death Row
The Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional but gave states wiggle room
May 8, 2014
Simon Lazarus, Tom Donnelly
It May Already Be Too Late to Confirm a Replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg
May 1, 2014
Brian Beutler
Scalia's Epic Blunder Exposes His Partisan Hackery
April 25, 2014
David Fontana
Sonia Sotomayor Is a National Treasure
'The Sotomayor Style' is how America should talk about fairness

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